Anger over Wolverhampton slop bucket plan
Friday 25th June 2010, 11:30AM BST.
Angry residents today said they did not want slop buckets which Wolverhampton City Council is rolling out to every home to recycle food.
The move to get 97,000 households to recycle their food scraps will begin from January.
Deliveries of the 23-litre buckets, dubbed food ‘caddies’, will get under way and each household will also get a smaller five-litre bucket to keep in the kitchen.
Food waste such as potato peelings, teabags and leftovers will be collected every week, and the size of wheelie bins for rubbish that cannot be recycled is set to be almost halved later next year to encourage people to use the caddies.
Newbridge resident Brian Bailey contacted the Express & Star to voice his disgust.
The 70-year-old, of Newbridge Drive, said: “I won’t have this bin and I won’t use it. It will smell and it will attract vermin.”
Gerald Gabb, aged 80, of Windermere Road, Tettenhall, said: “They used to have these things during the war to provide food for the pigs. I don’t think it should happen it’s a complete waste of time and money.”
Mr Gabb, who worked for the former Midlands Electricity Board for 30 years, said: “What happens if some of this food waste gets dropped? It will just stay there on the floor.”
The food bins will be rolled out over an eight-week period by March 31 and emptied weekly. Bosses say the move is necessary for the authority to achieve a 50 per cent target for recycling of household waste.
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what a complete waste of money, I have a two Children and two dogs and work full time as does my husband do wolves Council really think I have time to think about seperating food waste as well as everything else we have to be doing as a family, just think about what you are doing and stop wasting outr council tax money on rubbsih, how about filling in a few pot holes or getting the crossing sorted out.
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OK, so I can sort of see the idea of it but surely when councils are supposed to be cutting back on spending it seems like bit of an expensive project. Can’t they put this off for a couple of years and spend the money on something more useful?
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They also claimed that they are removing all Green Boxes and Poly Bags which the rest of recycling is sorted into….. how are us residents going to recycle paper, card, plastic,glass, and metal?
The council once again havent surveyed the chances and consulted the public to find their views on the matter.
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You know what this means? Black wheelie bins will go to fortnightly collections whilst the politicians will claim bins are being collected weekly thanks to a medeivel slop bucket! You can see it coming!
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Ahh what clever people we have spending our money in Wolverhampton. I thought the idea of recycling was to be environmentally friendly, this will put extra diesel fumes into the air with the extra collections by separate trucks, will make the air close to the homes toxic from rotting food not to mention rats, flies and maggots, and the wages for the extra collections will eat up more public funding, just a few points of many to think about.
WHAT A WASTE.
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I can’t believe people are moaning about something which will benefit the environment, not only by reducing the waste that goes into landfill, but by also reusing the waste as compost and thus reducing the need to use fertilizers.
How can people complain about seperating their food waste, surely they just need to put it into a different bin? or do people normally mix up their leftovers with other rubbish before putting it into the bin??
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What bright spark thought of this idea?
“I know” they said “let’s introduce a slop bucket but call it a caddie to give it a more acceptable name”. “What about the potential for maggots in the warm weather and vermin all year round?” said a colleague. “Oh don’t worry about that, that’s a job for another department, as long as we meet our targets who cares….”.
Pathetic, pathetic, pathetic.
For those of us who remember the old metal bins, we also remember the stench and the maggots!
Would like to see how many are not used, as I guess it would be more than 80%.
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I recently moved from the Midlands to Oxfordshire, where we have been using this food caddy system now for six months along with fortnightly collections, without any issues. The amount of rubbish we put in our general bin has plummeted, and we have not been overrun with vermin, which seems to be the common excuse for not doing it. It’s not difficult, it doesn’t take any extra time, it doesn’t smell, so stop coming up with the excuses! If a growing family of four can use this system without any issues, so can everybody else.
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At last, someone making some sense!
In regards to all those complaining about the smell, vermin, maggots and medieval conditions, what have they been doing with their food waste if not scraping it into a container in their kitchen before putting it into an outdoor container for weekly collection?
Surely they can’t all be composting?
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As far as I am concerned until an edict or law is passed that I have to separate any of the waste I will continue to lump it all in the black bin. The only people who have time to sort the waste are those with too much time on their hands.
Seeing as Wolverhampton Council already contract out their waste service to ‘Enterprise’ and no doubt this company make a good profit after the residents have done their work for them of sorting out each part of waste, this company should sort the waste out themselves I shall not bother it’s pathetic and it’s not going to save the planet! Not like an oil slick in the gulf!
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Do not accept it. Do not use it. If I get one I will take it back to the council offices and leave it there. Listen up Council, we don’t want them.
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I dont see the problem it is only a compost caddy bin, you can buy them in the shops and you can also get the fully compostable bags and if you keep it on your counter top all you do is put your peelings, teabags and scraps of food in it. Mind you we have a dog and the scraps go to him but he wont eat teabags and peelings unfortunately.
We do this at work and the caddy is by the window where we get the sun and there is no smell from it all, the guys here take it home and put it on the compost bin. It is no more difficult then sorting out your recycling.
I Notice all the people in the column in the paper are retired and older may be they are stuck in their ways. Dont start moaning about it until you give it a chance.
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Those of us with gardens, these thing are NOT needed. Refuse the new bins and Just start composting.
Surely these new bins are only useful for those living in flats.
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I live in a high-rise and most of our rubbish goes down a chute. We’ve just had a Council bulk mailing telling us what we can and can’t put in the green bins we haven’t got. THAT’S waste. We have recycling bins for paper, cans and glass… and that’s it.
We’re in a minority but have an allotment so do compost food waste. Never put cooked food out for composting.
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Lets be honest, this council is a joke. Spend money on bags, boxes and bins and lo and behold they won’t get emptied regularly anyway. My grass bin hasn’t been emptied in three years.
I have no room for these articles in my kitchen, I have a bin cupboard for one wheely bin and if the council want me to use the extra bins they will have to extend my house.
Message to the council: Don’t waste money on these, save the money to pay for expenses for the councillors.
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I think everyone on here needs to take a chill pill. If the council don’t hit their recycling target then they will get fined and the more they send to landfill, the more they have to pay.
So, they are actually saving YOU money by introducing this.
If you move out of Wolverhampton then it won’t be long before every council in the country will have to introduce this system.
As for not having time…what a load of rubbish, excuse the pun. All you do is scrape your plate into the caddy rather than the big.
AND, if you all had the appropriate amount of food on your plate then you wouldn’t have scraps leftover, so YOU need to sort out your eating style first.
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thank god some-one has shown a degree of sense!!! The ONLY food waste my household generates is meat bones. Learn to cook the right amount, dont allow kids to be faddy eaters, and use veg peelings etc to make compost – even if you dont have the space for a compost bin there’s bound to be a relative / friend that does. I sure I can find a use for another bin!!!!
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Do as I say not as I do, the new council motto.
My wife works in a school kitchen and they have 1 bin for all, no time to separate anything
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Tell Enviromental Health about that and they’ll be down on the school like a sack of bricks!!!
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I am from Wolverhampton, but now reside in Gloucester. They have brought this food caddy in my area along with fortnightly collections in February this year. Along with everyone else I was rather cheesed off, especially having food waste for 3 small children, but it is actually quite good and I am now saving in bin bags and am doing my bit for the environment. There is no vermin, the caddies are sealed and can be locked, so animals cannot get in and there is no smell. They are collected weekly. I think everyone should keep an open mind and be positive.
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I was not too keen on this ideal when reading the headlines.
But since it is only going to be for compostable food I dont have a problem.
Still wont be putting the bin out though as all of ours goes on my compost heaps :)
Im not certain but i doubt this scheme will be for cooked food. Can you imagine put a chicken carcass out in the food bin. eww.
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i really would love one of you moaning minnies to explain how exactly it takes extra time to put different items into a different bin.
as for vermin where exactly do you think this rubbish goes now… into land fill thats where that is where rats etc are colonising and breeding and spreading from just because your too damn lazy or ignorant ‘to use different bins’
we currently have a bin a bag and a box pretty much the only thing that goes in the bin is some food waste plus a few other items it is collected weekly and rarely 1/3 full and thats from a family of 4.
why in this article are the only people spoken too are over 70 hardly a broad spectrum of the public great level of impartiality of reporting there
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I WONT USE IT
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People are moaning about the stench, the maggots, and the vermin…
What’s any different to putting it in the black bin? It’s still full of food waste, just mixed with some other waste. Does that not smell and “attract vermin” in exactly the same way?
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The council gets enough taxpayer money as it is – why cant they sort out the rubbish themselves.
Its not like taxpayers get “value for money” from the council.
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I can’t believe all the moaning people on here. We’re along way behind the rest of the country in Wolverhampton. Most councils in England now recycle compostable waste and have fortnightly ‘black’ bin collections. Everyone else seems to manage with it. Do these complainers seriously think it is acceptable to just keep on sending all this rubbish to landfill? You can bet that they wouldn’t want to live near a landfill site though! Its this small minded attitude that needs rethinking. We have to think about our environment, we’re leaving the country in enough of a mess for our children anyway.
I personally do not have a problem with fortnightly bin collections. We are a family of 5 and our bin is rarely half full. If we can manage it then the vast majority of people can. It sickens me to see people still putting stuff in their black bins that can be recycled. Whilst I admit that the insubstantial bag provided for plastics and cardboard is ridiculous and how many times do you see them blowing around the strrets? It is though a good idea, if not necessarily, carried out very effectively. The compostable waste will be the same. We won’t be using the caddy as we alread compost our waste and no it doesn’t smell. Obviously if you kept the container in the kitchen for weeks at a time you would have a problem. But it doesn’t take much common sense to empty it! Rant over!
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We already have a waste food disposal system, it’s called a dog. …!!!!!!!!!!
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I have a back up recycler as well – a second dog anything I don’t eat the dogs will. Every home should have one!
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For God sake, this is rediculous. Wasn’t the “green” bin for peelings and compostable materials such as grass etc? I say keep the green bin, but as for the stupid poly bags, and other boxes that the bin men chuck around the street, leaving to blow around everywhere causing danger to drivers and pedestrians, bin em.
Surely in the age of technology today, it would be cheaper to invest in a sorting machine and have just one bin. easy, requires only the conventional lorry, and would ensure everything was sorted into recyclable stuff, and landfill.
I bet there is some kind of system out there, i know it may cost, but how much would it cost to kit Just imagine how easy it would be, we bin it,they collect it, they empty the lorry into the a sorting machine, hey presto, everything that can be recycled gets it, whereas how many people out there simply do not have the time waste properly, or cba brigade.,
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Good one Wolves!
About time too….
Big Rob – you are NOT allowed to put peelings, etc into the green bins! That is kitchen waste. Only garden rubbish like grass cuttings, weeds etc or old roots etc dug up from the garden.
Most of our kitchen veggie waste along with grass cuttings go into our own compost bins but these get full over the year and also you cannot put too many grass cuttings into a composter as it does not make for a good mix so the forthcoming kitchen waster bins are a great thing!
101% to Wolves Council!
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For all the people who are moaning!
LAZY!!!!!
That’s all it comes down to lazyness!!!! I won’t use it! I can’t be bothered! Sounds about right for most of the white british population in the 21st century!
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they will stink – trust me we had a trial about 2 years ago it was abandoned!
Chris you sound like a racist
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